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The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference: Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, 1956-2023
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /"Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of reconstructing this history--finding everybody who's been a part of, i...
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Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during th...
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The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to sign...
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Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /**ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROLLING STONE**The captivating memoir from “the emperor of intergalactic funk” (NPR) and most influe...
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Sly & the Family Stone: An Oral History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Their music changed pop history, but we've never known much about the people who made it...until now. "...a first-hand account of both the kaleidos...
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Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals j...
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Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of Blackfem Voices and Technology
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Feenin, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music's continuing centrality in Black life since the late 1970s. Focusing on various musical pr...
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Black Moses: The Hot-Buttered Life and Soul of Isaac Hayes
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The first biography of soul pioneer Isaac Hayes, whose groundbreaking music provided the foundation for hip-hop and a new racial paradigm. "Black m...
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